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Unlike a lot of areas of the state where you can sight cast cobia free-swimming along the beaches in the Southwest Region we find our fish either on wrecks or on the grass flats. On the southern end of my region from Ft. Myers Beach all the way down

Capt. William Toney/Homosassa Inshore Fishing Charters July 14 2015 Excellent catches of redfish have been reported and showing up at the cleaning table at MacRaes of Homosassa. Another good eating fish showing up at the dock but just out of reach fo

This is the time of year fishermen have waited for.  The only downside is the season seems to slip by too quickly.  Cool temperatures can mean a good bite. Water temperatures in local have dropped to around 66 degrees.  We’re sti

Keaton Report March 26 27 Trout are in recovery as evidenced by my trips Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Started with catching bait Sunday in miserable weather and Gulf water temps at 58 –59 degrees. Monday Morning saw 59 again and it was slow a

joey phillips photo cutline: 2898 Joey Phillips of Columbus Ga. with a 23.5” trout caught June 15 Keaton report June 22 23 /19 Please don’t ask me about the scallops because I was fishing Saturday(opening day) and the folks I asked ( as t

We had a decent run of pan-sized or larger Spot and Croaker in this morning's incoming tide. Neither the outgoing tide today nor the incoming tide this evening yielded anything better than those stupid little Pinfish. We're hoping tomorrow w

Capt. Keith Mixon/Mixin’ Work With Play Fishing Charters July 31 2013 “Fishing has been fair during the past week. During the past few days only a few species of game fish have been willing to bite. To begin with the early morning speckled

PANAMA CITYBEACH OFFSHORE Well if you haven’t gotten a chance to go out after Grouper lately you had better hurry. In our neck of the woods Grouper closes in Federal waters on December second at midnight and in State waters on the third at mid

Well we are officially getting into our slower season for fishing here in Islamorada especially in the backcountry. The august islamorada fishing can still be very good though lack of visitors and the heat keep many people from getting out on the wa

Just today as I was sitting down to write my forecast the phone rang and a potential customer was calling us for information on fishing in september and whether or not it was a good time of year to bring his son down to fish. As he asked if there is

I am in Islamorada fishing the Project Healing Waters this helps marines that might be struggling with assorted issues. From the reception Monday night breakfast at the Lorelei Tues Morning and dinner Tuesday night it is a very well organized event.

Capt. George Hastick/Fish Hunter Charters July 19 2013 “If you are looking to do something other than flats fishing in the bay grouper and Spanish mackerel are ready for the taking. Find a rock pile near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge or the shippin

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The past week tarpon fishing season was in full swing in Islamorada. The previous week with the early morning weaker falling tide we had some trouble with finding and catching mullet. Even the guys who catch and sell live bait in the mornings were h

We had postponed our fishing trip from Monday until this morning to avoid the higher winds earlier in the week and boy was it a pretty day!  I met Barbara and Lou Montresor and their son Kevin down at the Big Talbot Island Park this morning at

Well the wind continued to howl from the east again today here on 1/11/13 however that didn't prevent us from making a good day of it! January Islamorada Fishing has had a little bit of everything going on in the backcountry however with the hig

photo cutline; blake bass 2855 Blake Bass( 5 Y.O.) with his first – ever speckled trout 5/28/19 Keaton Report May 31 June 1 2019 Trout fishing couldn’t get any better than last week as I had limits on all my charters despite Gulf water t

Had my father Capt. Richard Stanczyk Sr. and friend/photographer Ron Modra out for some september fishing in islamorada for fun today! We brought some shrimp and a load of pinfish to try deep in the florida everglades fishing. We left early at 6:00